Eldar Murtazin claims that Nokia will release seven new S60 running devices by February next year, two of them being a major catalyst. For those that do not know, the Mobile World Congress is held at that time, the biggest show for the mobile phone industry.

We can always expect a Nokia N97, a flagship to come by that time, and you should see it from December, that's the time the leak images start to circulate. We expect the Nokia 5800 to release at this year's Symbian Smartphone Show, so this phone might not be included in those seven phones.

Most of the "lucky seven" should be touchscreen phones as S60 Touch UI, the fifth edition of the platform, will prevail. The catalyst that Murtazin referred to will hopefully be a touchscreen phone with a very advanced camera, as he stated that it will drive the mobile industry standard for the whole year, just like the N95 did when it was released. We can expect the N97, if that's what it will be called, to be better than the Samsung INNOV8. Will the other "landmark device" be in the N9x line, or will it be a N8x of the N82's category? We can only wait and see.

[via Mobile Review via The Nokia Blog]